Paper and fabric roller



Sept. 23, 1924.

C. E. TOMPKINS PAPER'AND FABRIC ROLLER Filed Feb. 25. 1923 Patented Sept. 23, 1924.

UNITED STATES CHARLES E. TQMPKINS, OF TIPTON, INDIANA.

PAPER AND FABRIC ROLLER.

`implication filed February 23, 1923. Serial No. 620,672.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, C HAnLns E. ToMriirNs, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Tipton, county of Tipton, and State of Indiana, have invented a certain. new and useful Paper and Fabric: Roller; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompany- 10 ing drawings, in which like numerals refer to like par-ts.

This invention relates to a paper or fabric roller construction, and the chief object of the invention is to construct a device which is adapted to support a. large roll and permit a portion thereof to be removed therefrom and wound into a smaller roll.

The chief feature of the invention consists in the particular arrangement of the several parts, and in particular the support for the roll to be wound.

The full nature of the invention will be understood from the accompanying drawings and the following description and claims.

In the drawings, Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of the invention. Fig. 2 is an end view of the left hand end of the device shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged side view of one of the roll supports. Fig. 4 is a view taken at right angles to Fig. 3 of the same parts with a portion in section to show other parts in detail. Fig. 5 is an er larged side view of the other end of the roll support. Fig. 6 is an end view of the same. Fig. 7 is an end view of the other roll support.

In the drawings 10 indicates the base to which is secured at one end a U-shaped support or standard construction 11 by suitable means, such as the screws 12. The standards 11 are spaced apart and are adapted to receive a core 13 which is apertured to receive a rrbolt 14 secured in position by means of the nuts 15 and 16. A roll 17 is rotatably supported in the U-shaped standard or bracket 11 by the foregoing means, and the strip 18 thereof is passed beneath a retainer herein shown in the form of an inverted U-shaped member 19 having the ends 20 secured to the base 10, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The strip 18 is associated with another rotatable support positioned at the other end of the base 10. Herein said rotatable support is illustrated as comprising a shaft 21 which has an unsupported 55 end 22 which is flattened at 23 and is receivable by a suitable and complementarily formed plate 24. The plate 24 supports a looped finger engageable piece 25 and also supports a retainer rod member 26 which 60 is secured to the plate 24 and is positioned adjacent the shaft 21 extending parallel thereto.

The shaft 21 near its other end supports a plate 27 secured thereto, and said plate 65 27 is provided with openings 28 which preferably are arranged as herein shown, or may .be o-therwise arranged, and said openings are adapted to detachably receive the free end of the retainer rod 26. The shape of the slot 28 has no function in the present invention except to assist in locating the end of the rod 26 therein when the rod supporting head is positioned on the shaft `21 and to permit ready removal of 75 the rod 26 from said slot when desired.

The last mentioned end of the shaft 21 is rotatably supported by a looped standard having the sides or arms 29 and 129 connected by the portion 229 and terminating S0 in the portions 30 and 130 suitably and similarly secured to the base 10. The spaced arms 29 and 129 rotatably support one end of the shaft 21, and between said arms and rigidly secured to said shaft is a gear wheel 31. Also rotatably supported in said spaced arm and projecting therefrom upon one side, and herein the opposite side from the direction in which the shaft 21 projects is a crank shaft 32 having the crank portion 9o 33. The crank shaft 32 supports a gear wheel 34 which is rigidly secured to the crank shaft 32 and is adapted to mesh with the gear wheel 31. Rotation of the crank shaft 32 rotates the gear wheel 31, and, 95 therefore, the shaft 21 carrying the same. Rotation of the shaft 21 rotates the entire roll supporting construction, and in this rotational movement, the strip 18 is wound to form a roll 35.

Whe-n the roll has been wound to a suitable size, the strip 18 is moved into engagement with a transversely extending knife 36 which is rigidly secured at one end to the standard 29. In this manner the strip 105 18 is severed from the roll 35. After severance, the plate 24 is removed from the shaft 21, together with the rod 26, and after such removal the roll 35 is removed from the support, and said support is returned to its 4original position upon the shaft 21.

The invention Claimed is:

l.` In a roll Winder, the combination of a rotatable shaft, an apertured plate positioned at one end upon said shaft, a head slidably Supported upon the other end of said shaft, and a member supported by said head and receivable by said apertured plate for positioning it adj aeent said shaft.

2. n a roll Winder Construction, the oombination of a rotatable shaft, a head slidably supported by said shaft, said head and said shaft having a driving Connection, and

a finger piece projecting from said head and beyond said shaft.

3. In a roll Winder, the combination of a rotatable shaft, an apertured plate positioned at one end upon said shaft, a head slidably supported upon the other end of said shaft, a member supported by said head and receivable by the apertured plate for positioning it adjacent the shaft, said head and said shaft having a driving Connection, and a linger piece projecting from said head and beyond said Shaft.

In Witness whereof, I have hereunto affixed my signature.

(CHARLES E. TOMPKINS. 

